> You have no idea who designed the thing, who manufactured it, or who swapped it out while it was in shipping to you. All wrong, as others have pointed out.

> You have no idea who designed the thing, who manufactured it, or who swapped it out while it was in shipping to you. All wrong, as others have pointed out. As for the last of the above, if the OEM includes (as they should) platform certificates for the TPM, then the TPM cannot have been swapped out while in transit w/o the OEM helping the attacker. For example, Dell includes platform certificates binding the TPM.